Illustration: A narrow residential shopping lane lies empty beneath scattered streetlights. Every shop shutter is down, upstairs windows are dark, and bicycles stand motionless beneath their covers. Through one uncovered kitchen window, a plain analog clock shows a little after two; the room itself is empty.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

夜よ更ふけ

yofuke

late at night

Example sentences

我々われわれは夜更よふけまで語かたり合あった。
We talked late into the night.
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彼かれはしばしば夜更よふけまで読書どくしょする。
He often reads far into the night.
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こんな夜更よふけに女おんなの子この一人歩ひとりあるきは危あぶない。
It is not safe for a girl to go out by herself so late at night.
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Kanji in 夜更

夜night; eveningOnヤKunよ・よる
更grow late; night watchOnコウKunさら・さらに・ふける

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